Unicode input

These pages are intended to help people create web pages which include a few letters or words in an unfamiliar alphabet. For instance, when I created this page, I wanted the header to include one word "Българитҍ" in the Cyrillic alphabet, including one obsolete Cyrillic character. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, and I ended up hand-typing the string "Българитҍ".

These pages are intended to automate the process. They currently support these alphabets:

• Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc.)
• Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, etc.)
• Greek
• Hangul jamo (Korean)
• Hebrew [This page does not work properly with recent versions of Internet Explorer.]
• Hungarian
• I.P.A. (International Phonetic Alpabet)
• "latin" A large collection of characters based mainly on the latin alphabet.

Instructions

On each page you will see three items:

• An output panel, with various settings, and a white rectangle where all the output will appear.
• A conventional-shaped keyboard, with keys which you operate by clicking on them.
• A set of all the characters available on the page, which you also operate by clicking on them.

When you have the output you want in the output field, you select it, and paste it into your html editor, or whatever other application you want.

The output panel allows you to select whether you want your output as raw characters (e.g. "ж"), decimal entities (e.g. "ж"), hexadecimal entities (e.g. "ж"), or UTF8 (e.g. "ж").

• Raw characters are shorter, and more readable, but are not be supported by some software, and require conversion, e.g. from ANSI to UTF-8 by some.
• Both decimal and hexadecimal entities are robust, and there is little to choose between them.
• UTF8 may be suitable for input to a database, to cause its internal representation to be correct and searchable; but if often yields output that appears in a browser as "" and cannot be cut-and-pasted.

You can also change both the font and the size of the characters in the output field. These changes apply to the entire contents of the output field. They have no effect on what you copy and paste from the output field.

Fonts

You will not see any of the characters correctly, or maybe at all, unless you have a suitable font installed. I cannot advise you on fonts. I have a Windows system, and it is possible that the pages specify fonts which are available only for Windows. Each page has a link to a possible source of fonts.

Readers of the web pages you are creating will also be unable to read the characters correctly unless they have a suitable font installed.

Overlaid characters

Some unicode characters are intended to be overlaid over other characters. These are indicated in the main list of characters by a coloured background. With some fonts, the overlaying does not work.